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"Island Of Integration": Desegregation Of The Women's Army Corps At Fort Lee, Virginia, 1948-1954, Meika Downey Jan 2020

"Island Of Integration": Desegregation Of The Women's Army Corps At Fort Lee, Virginia, 1948-1954, Meika Downey

Theses and Dissertations

Countless studies exist examining President Harry S. Truman’s Executive Order 9981 mandating racial desegregation of the U.S. armed forces, though all singularly focus on the experiences of male soldiers in the twentieth century. This thesis examines how the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) training center at Fort Lee, Virginia implemented desegregation in 1950 in the midst of the Korean War with relative speed and tolerance. Determined through archival records including official WAC reports, photographs, newspapers, and nine newly conducted racially diverse oral history interviews with WAC veterans, I demonstrate how the Fort Lee training center became a physical and cultural “island …


A Spectacle And Nothing Strange, Taylor Z. King Jan 2019

A Spectacle And Nothing Strange, Taylor Z. King

Theses and Dissertations

Working through methods of abstraction and comedic mimicry I choreograph awkwardly balanced sculpture with objects of adornment as a means to defuse personal sensitivities surrounding my experiences of gender, desire, and home. The research that follows is concerned with the adjacent, the in between, above and underneath, because I feel that this kind of looking means that you are, to some degree, aware of what lies at the edges. Maybe this is what Gertrude Stein means to act as though there is no use in a center—because this concerns a way of relating, though there are many things in the …


"To Conceive With Child Is The Earnest Desire If Not Of All, Yet Of Most Women": The Advancement Of Prenatal Care And Childbirth In Early Modern England: 1500-1770, Victoria E.C. Glover Jan 2018

"To Conceive With Child Is The Earnest Desire If Not Of All, Yet Of Most Women": The Advancement Of Prenatal Care And Childbirth In Early Modern England: 1500-1770, Victoria E.C. Glover

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes medical manuals published in England between 1500 and 1770 to trace developing medical understandings and prescriptive approaches to conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. While there have been plenty of books written regarding social and religious changes in the reproductive process during the early modern era, there is a dearth of scholarly work focusing on the medical changes which took place in obstetrics over this period. Early modern England was a time of great change in the field of obstetrics as physicians incorporated newly-discovered knowledge about the male and female body, new fields and tools, and new or revived …


Court Opinion, Gay Alliance Of Students V. Matthews, U.S. Court Of Appeals Fourth District, 1976 October 28 Oct 1976

Court Opinion, Gay Alliance Of Students V. Matthews, U.S. Court Of Appeals Fourth District, 1976 October 28

VCU Gay Alliance of Students Collection

Twenty-three page typewritten court opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, with opinions from Judges Winter and Markey.


Gay Academic Union Third Annual Conference Program, 1975 November 28-30, Gay Academic Union Nov 1975

Gay Academic Union Third Annual Conference Program, 1975 November 28-30, Gay Academic Union

VCU Gay Alliance of Students Collection

Forty-four page program for the Gay Academic Union Third Annual Conference at Columbia University, which took place November 28-30, 1975. The program includes a list of sessions, abstracts of the sessions, participant biographies, lists of the conference sponsors and conference committee, and advertisements from Inter Typographics, Inc., R.A.V. Associates, and Christopher Street That New Magazine, Inc.. There is handwriting throughout the program.


Memorandum, Gay Alliance Of Students V. Matthews, United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Virginia Richmond Division, 1975 November 7 Nov 1975

Memorandum, Gay Alliance Of Students V. Matthews, United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Virginia Richmond Division, 1975 November 7

VCU Gay Alliance of Students Collection

Twenty-two typewritten pages and two handwritten pages (on the back of typewritten pages) memorandum by Judge D. Dortch Warriner, United States District Judge, in regards to Gay Alliance of Students v. Matthews.


Gay Alliance Of Students Statement Of Purpose, 1974 Jan 1974

Gay Alliance Of Students Statement Of Purpose, 1974

VCU Gay Alliance of Students Collection

One page handwritten document listing five items in the Gay Alliance of Students Statement of Purpose. Transcription:
"The Gay Alliance of Students exists
To bring together in a unified and supportive community men and women of all orientations who oppose discrimination, especially discrimination based on sex, and sexual or affectional preferences.
To establish a forum on human sexuality, emphasizing the gay experience.
To serve as a resource to the university and, in concert, with other organizations, the community.
To improve the quality of student life especially gay student life, by identifying, evaluating and increasing the university's responsiveness to our needs. …


The Lamp, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1955 Jan 1955

The Lamp, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1955

St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962)

Yearbooks from the Saint Philip School of Nursing include black and white photographs of buildings, faculty, clinic instructors, and students. Also included are informational sections such as a history of the school, class song, class history, class poem, class prophecy, class will, patrons, and advertisements. In this copy, a book plate on the inside front cover reads "Presented to Tompkins-McCaw Library Medical College of Virginia by Dr. R.B. Smith"


The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1954 Jan 1954

The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1954

St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962)

Yearbooks from the Saint Philip School of Nursing include black and white photographs of buildings, faculty, clinic instructors, and students. Also included are informational sections such as a history of the school, class history, superlatives, class prophecy, class song, class directory, student activities, patrons, autographs, and advertisements. In this copy, the word "died" is handwritten next to several photographs throughout the yearbook. Also handwritten next to some photographs locations, presumably where the nurse pictured was located when the writer investigated where they ended up.


The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1953 Jan 1953

The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1953

St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962)

Yearbooks from the Saint Philip School of Nursing include black and white photographs of buildings, faculty, clinic instructors, and students. Also included are informational sections such as a history of the school, class directory, superlatives, a nurse's prayer, class history, poems, class prophecy, class will, patrons, and advertisements. In this copy, a handwritten inscription on the front endsheet reads: "Property of Miss Louise Willis" and "Mrs Louise Vaughan Willis" Additionally, the word "Dead" is handwritten next to several photographs throughout the yearbook.


The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1952 Jan 1952

The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1952

St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962)

Yearbooks from the Saint Philip School of Nursing include black and white photographs of faculty, clinic instructors, and students. Also included are informational sections such as a history of the school, class directory, superlatives, class history, class poem and song, class "Last Will and Testament," patrons, and advertisements.


The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1951 Jan 1951

The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1951

St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962)

Yearbooks from the Saint Philip School of Nursing include black and white photographs of faculty, clinic instructors, and students. Also included are informational sections such as the honor code, class song, class directory, class history, class prophecy, class "Last Will and Testament," prose and poetry, superlatives, patrons, and advertisements. In this copy, a handwritten inscription on the front endsheet reads: "[Pend?] L.W. Bland RN, 1803 - Carter St., Richmond, Va."


The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1950 Jan 1950

The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1950

St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962)

Yearbooks from the Saint Philip School of Nursing include black and white photographs of faculty, clinic instructors, and students. Also included are informational sections such as a history of the school, the honor code, a class directory, class history, class prophecy, class "Last Will and Testament," senior activities, class poem, an alumnae directory, patrons, and advertisements.


The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1946 Jan 1946

The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1946

St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962)

Yearbooks from the Saint Philip School of Nursing include black and white photographs of faculty, clinic instructors, and students. Also included are informational sections such as student organizations,a Who's Who, class song, illustrations, and advertisements . In this copy, a handwritten inscription on the front endsheet reads: "6-5-47 Property of Miss P.L. Wilkinson, R.N., St. Philip Dorm Room 119". There are several autographs on page 33. A handwritten inscription on the back endsheet reads: "Miss Pearl L. Wilkinson, R.N."


The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1944 Jan 1944

The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1944

St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962)

Yearbooks from the Saint Philip School of Nursing include black and white photographs of faculty, clinic instructors, and students. Also included are informational sections such as class histories, information about the school's endowment fund, the class prophecy, student organizations, a class poem and class song, photographs of student activities, and a directory. In this copy, a handwritten inscription on the front endsheet reads: "Sylvia Vaux Daily Hines."


The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1943 Jan 1943

The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1943

St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962)

Yearbooks from the Saint Philip School of Nursing include black and white photographs of faculty, clinic instructors, and students. Also included are informational sections such as class histories, information about the school's endowment fund, the class prophecy, student organizations, a class poem and class song, photographs of student activities, and advertisements. In this copy, a handwritten inscription on the front endsheet reads: "Miss Jessee Mae Brown, 914 Glasgow Dr., Portsmouth Va." Throughout the yearbook are handwritten notations, including checkmarks next to individual student names and photographs, and the word "Dead" written over some student photographs.


The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1940 Jan 1940

The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1940

St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962)

Yearbooks from the Saint Philip School of Nursing include black and white photographs of faculty, clinic instructors, and students. Also included are informational sections such as the class president's philosophy, class poem, class will, and advertisements. In this copy, a handwritten inscription on the front endsheet reads: "Sylvia Voux Daily".


The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1939 Jan 1939

The Light, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1939

St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962)

Yearbooks from the Saint Philip School of Nursing include black and white photographs of faculty, clinic instructors, and students. Also included are informational sections such as a class history, the class prophecy, the class president's philosophy, a class will, photographs of student activities, jokes, and advertisements. In this copy, a handwritten inscription on the front endsheet reads: "Sylvia Voux Daily".


The Mirror, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1927 Jan 1927

The Mirror, Saint Philip Hospital School Of Nursing, 1927

St. Philip School of Nursing (1920-1962)

Yearbooks from the Saint Philip School of Nursing include black and white photographs of faculty, clinic instructors, and students. Also included are informational sections such a list of alumnae, class history, information about the school's endowment fund, the class prophecy, a class will, class song, class poem, senior class statistics, and advertisements. In this copy, a handwritten inscription on the front endsheet reads: "Maude Baynham Hentz".